Yes, he's the narrator. And when he does finally have a moment where he engages in what throughout the book he refers to as his bad habit. That has ties in with some of the biographical stuff that we talked about at the top of the show,. With his later in life interest in physical fitness and an weight lifting and, yes. He's oll the beach thinking about phi novel, how lonely omi seems to be as a person. And also what gets him excited is, like, thinking about himself in whatever traits he might share with omi.